The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists Leave a comment
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Jules Thornton didn’t come to Florida horse country to make friends. She is intent on becoming a world-class rider and trainer. Chasing her dreams doesn’t leave much time for things like friends or vacations.
And she certainly doesn’t have time for Pete Morrison, the handsome heir to one of Ocala’s grandest horse farms who keeps beating her at events and, for some reason, asking her out to dinner.
As a new horse challenges her and her farm slips toward bankruptcy, she realizes her ambition can only take her so far. Jules will need to learn to trust her community—or risk losing everything.
If you’ve been paying attention to the buzzy books of the moment, you might notice a book missing from this list: there’s Fourth Wing and Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros, but where’s Onyx Storm? Orders of the Target special edition alone crashed their website at 3 a.m., and there were hundreds of midnight release parties across the U.S. and Canada last week. Well, the bestseller data takes quite a while to come in, so these lists are always a couple weeks behind. Expect to see that one in many bestseller lists to come!
We do have a couple new titles on the bestsellers lists this week, though. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is the newest horror novel by Grady Hendrix, author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group. This one about witches and unwed mothers in the 1970s, and it came out January 14th.
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon, on the other hand, first came out in 2023. This historical mystery novel is based on the life of an 18th-century midwife named Martha Ballard. It got a lot of attention when it first came out, and it looks like the recent paperback edition has given it another boost in popularity.
This list continues to have a lack of diversity on many levels, including being disproportionately by white authors. Some Indie Bestsellers you should know about are Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao, Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor, and Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.
To get these numbers, we look at the USA Today overall top 10; Publishers Weekly overall top 10; The New York Times top 10, both Combined Print & E-Book Fiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction lists; Amazon Charts top 10, both Fiction and Nonfiction; and Indie Bestsellers top 10, Fiction and Nonfiction, both Paperback and Hardcover. New additions to the list this week are bolded.
Books On Four Bestseller Lists:
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Indie Bestsellers)
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, NYT, Amazon)
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
Atomic Habits by James Clear (Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Amazon, Indie Bestsellers)
